Shaun Wright-Phillips revealed Queens Park Rangers’ remarkable victory at Chelsea has convinced them they will survive in the Premier League.

Rangers defied pre-match odds of 14/1 to secure their first away win in the Premier League since November 2011, and only their second overall in the division this term.

Although Harry Redknapp’s team remain five points adrift of safety with fixtures against Tottenham, West Ham and Manchester City approaching, Wright-Phillips, who was signed by Chelsea from City for £21million in 2005, now believes Rangers will beat the drop.

“It makes us think that if Chelsea struggled to break us down, with the way we played against them, then a lot of teams will,” said Wright-Phillips. “We’ve never stopped believing we could escape, ever since we got in this situation.

“We still believe it strongly and it was a great relief to get that result at Stamford Bridge. Away from home we haven’t been the best and we’ve dropped a lot of points, so this is something we have to consolidate now.

“We tried to frustrate Chelsea and catch them on the break, and we did that well.”

The turnaround was even more remarkable because it followed the 3-0 defeat by Liverpool at Loftus Road, perhaps Rangers’ worst performance of a season in which there have been many poor ones.

With Chelsea having won their previous four games, it appeared there could be only one victor, but Rangers’ tactics stifled the off-colour home side and they claimed the points when Wright-Phillips scored 12 minutes from full-time after a clever lay-off by Adel Taarabt.

Despite the cheer this result brought, Redknapp knows a side who have let in 36 goals in the league this season need more remedial work, and he intends to hand former Chelsea defender Tal Ben Haim a deal until the end of the campaign. “He’s been training with us for four or five weeks and he’s keen to have a go,” said Redknapp. “I think he’ll do well for us.

Forward Jamie Mackie, one of his side’s most energetic players, warned his team-mates they must build quickly on the sensational result at Stamford Bridge.

Mackie told talkSPORT: “It’s important after we get a massive win like that, that we go into our home games and any games we’ve got coming up and take that belief that we showed tonight otherwise a massive result like that can be wasted.

“When we stayed up last season, we got an unbelievable result against Liverpool when no-one expected it. It gave us belief, we got some results and it kept us up.

“We weren’t good enough when we lost 3-0 to Liverpool and it hurt as a professional. At Chelsea, we worked for each other, there was no selfishness out there and that is the only way to get out of trouble.”